Cancer immunology expert and former AACR president Elizabeth Jaffee, MD, FAACR, discusses the latest progress in the research on pancreatic cancer vaccines and explains why cancer interception in individuals at high risk is the new frontier of the field.
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Exposure to wildfire smoke may increase the risk of developing several cancers, according to research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2026 by Shuguang Leng, MBBS, PhD, and Qizhen Wu, PhD, both of the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. Amid bigger U.S. wildfires, wildfire smoke’s impacts on human health are increasingly relevant.
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Several studies suggest GLP-1 drugs may lower cancer risk. But that benefit may be due to the patients themselves: those who are healthier, wealthier and with better access to care.

Cancer researchers—including Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR, of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, FAACR, of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania; Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, FAACR, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Cornelia Ulrich, PhD, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and University of Utah; Electra D. Paskett, PhD, FAACR, of The Ohio State University, and Anna Barker, PhD, FAACR, of the Ellison Medical Institute—explain how certain provisions of the White House Office of Management and Budget’s proposal to change how federal grants are awarded and managed would be harmful to U.S. scientific and medical innovation.
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Science works at a much slower pace than social media, opening a large window for early findings to be taken at face value and misinformation to spread.

After surviving brain cancer, former competitive cyclist Chris Baccash dedicated his life to helping others. Baccash now uses his passion for cycling to make an impact, including by participating in the upcoming Philadelphia Cycling Classic Charity Ride for AACR.
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The June edition of Editors’ Picks from the AACR journals included studies on targeting neural cross-talk to stop glioblastoma recurrence, identifying patients with multiple myeloma who may benefit from debulking chemotherapy, examining considerable improvements between 1975 and 2020 in survival rates of childhood and adolescent cancer patients, and much more.
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At the AACR Annual Meeting 2026, a session highlighted progress from four Cancer Grand Challenges teams on the interplay of mutations, promoting factors, and tissue-specific epigenetic programs in cancer development and on the biology of cachexia. Speakers included Michael R. Stratton, MBBS, PhD, FAACR, of the Wellcome Sanger Institute; Allan Balmain, PhD, FAACR, of the University of California, San Francisco; Karen M. Cichowski, PhD, of Harvard Medical School; and Eileen White, PhD, FAACR, of Rutgers University.
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The AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2026 included an examination of the growing gap in cancer care between rural and urban areas. The report also featured the stories of several cancer survivors—including Dennis Gruenhagen, Melanie R. Stewart, and Sebastián Casaus Natale—whose care was impacted by geographical barriers.
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The cochairs of the AACR Special Conference on Breaking Barriers in the Fight Against Rare Cancers—Andrew Futreal, PhD, FAACR, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Taran Gujral, PhD, of Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Brooke E. Howitt, MD, of Stanford University; and Patrick Tan, MD, PhD, of Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore—shared updates about the current status of rare cancer research and what excites them most about this upcoming meeting.
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